Combined belt-buckle and pocket-book.



P. PUBLICKER & H. SEGAL. GoMBINED BELT BUCKLE AND POCKET BooK.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1910.

Patented Dec. 26, 1911.

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PHILIP PUBLICKER AND I-IYlVIAN SEGAL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED BELT-BUCKLE AND POCKET-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1911.

Application led September 2, 1910. Serial No. 580,263.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PHILIP PUBLICKER, a citizen of the United States, and HYMAN SEGAL, a subject of the Czar of Russia, re-v siding at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Belt-Buckles and Pocket-Books, of which the following is a speciiication.

Our invention relates to improvements in combined belt buckles and pocketbooks, the object of the invention being to provide an improved arrangement whereby the pocketbook may be readily attached and detached from a plate, the latter constructed to rey ceive the ends of the belt.

A further object is to provide an improved construction of pocketbook, in combination with an improved construction of plate with an improved means for locking the two together, which locking means can only be released when the pocketbook is open.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1, is a perspective view illustrating our improvements. Fig. 2, is a view in vertical section, and Fig. 3, is a view in rear elevation.

l, represents a plate of general butterfly shape having loops 2 for the attachment of the ends of the belt 3 in any approved manner.

4f, represents the pocketbook which comprises an inner plate or member 5, and an outer plate or member 6 connected at their lower ends by a hinge 7, said members both of general butterfly shape, connected at their side edges by accordion plaited flexible material 8 and adapted to be secured in closed position by means of knobs 9 or other suitable fastening devices. l

While we -employ the term butterfly shape, the invention is in no wise limited to this particular shape, save that it is necessary that the plate 1 have a central depression in its upper portion to receive a tongue 10 Xed to member 5, and of a width equal to the depression in the plate. This tongue 10 is of general hook shape to hook over the upper edge of plate 1, and is of a width sufficient to lit within the depression in the plate and prevent any lateral movement of the pocketbook on the plate.

11, is a frail spring which is secured to member 5 by means of'securing devices 12, and at its free end is provided with a headed pin 13 which projects through an opening 14- in member 5, and adapted to be projected through an opening 15 in plate 1. This pin may be manipulated from inside the pocketbook, and it will be noted that when the tongue 9 is in position over plate 1, and the pin 13 is in opening 15, the pocketbook will be securely locked to the plate and can only be removed when pin 13 is drawn backward, which can only be accomplished when the pocketbook is open.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing from our invention, and hence we do Iot limit ourselves to the precise details set forth, but consider ourselves at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a combined belt buckle and pocketbook, the combination with a plate of general butterfly shape forming a belt buckle, and having a depression in its upper edges of a pocketbook of the same shape as the plate and adapted to lit against said plate, a hook Shaped tongue on the pocketbook adapted to engage over the plate in its depressed portion and prevent lateral movement of the pocketbook, said plate and said pocketbook having registering openings, a spring secured to the pocketbook within the pocketbook, and a pin secured to said spring and adapted to ybe located in said -registering openings, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

R. H. KRENKEL, CEAS. E. Po'rrs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Pategts,

` Washington, ZD. C. 

